Items Tagged with 'Air pollution'

The agency has proposed allowing construction to begin on non-emitting components or structures for power generation, data centers and manufacturing under the federal new source review program.

A new Environment Protection Agency proposal to roll back a rule on downwind emissions from power plants and industrial sources is drawing both praise and criticism.

A pair of proposed rules would repeal emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants and weaken rules on how much mercury and other air toxics can be admitted.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to reconsider existing regulations for pollution cleanup, water discharge and air emissions limits while gutting internal diversity efforts and environmental justice programs for already hard-hit communities.

But in a surprise, court majority agrees to not block federal EPA GHG emissions rule from taking effect as it weighs opponents legal challenge to the mandate.

The rule will impact new plants built going forward and more than 200 existing plants.

A Canadian company’s “smog-eating” highway noise wall technology, aimed at trapping air pollutants emitted by vehicles, is currently being tested on highways in Toronto and the U.K. Proponents say it can reduce overall air pollution by 50%.